I saw this diary entry, which simply asks others to recommend a diary entry by felow Kossack "StormBear".
THIS IS STORMBEAR'S DIARY. I'm repeating the request: please go to StormBear's page and Recommend his diary, using the button on the right of the page. It's entitled "Why Fox News canceled my interview about Netroots & the Troops - KO-worthy". And it is worthy of Olbermann.
StormBear was going to be on FoxNews, because he was to talk about BooksForSoldiers.com, their fundraising problems and how they are using the netroots to solve the problem. He was told his interview was to be at 10.20, and it was good to go.
And then someone on Fox must have done some Googling...
This morning, 45 minutes before the car was supposed to pick me up, another Fox News employee, Kelly, called me to tell me the segment had been canceled. "Something came up."
Well, Hell. I used the last of my shave gel, got all dolled up and had no place to go!
I smelled a rat, hard to avoid with Fox News, and I wondered what story I got bumped for, so I switched on Fox News. Here is their line-up for the 10am hour of America's Newsroom With Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly. Keep in mind, I was slated for 10:20am.
10:08 Running of the Bulls
10:13 Video of a car chase in Portland, Oregon
10:13 Oregon man flies in a lawn chair from oregon to idaho
10:20 MAN BITTEN BY SNAKE IN FLORIDA WALMART
10:22 Obama and McCain layout out economic plans
10:25 Baseball player, A-Rod might be involved with Madonna according to tabloids.
Books For Soldiers got bumped for a snakebite story! A bite where no one died! Here is a link to the wire story.
I understand how cable news works and big stories could break at anytime. If Mugabe called for new elections or it started to rain in Big Sur, that I can understand being bumped. But a guy gets bit by a pygmy rattlesnake at the local Walmart and the soldiers get bumped?
WTF, indeed.
My theory is BFS represents yet another inconvenient truth or maybe several:
Soldiers need to turn to the charities for things the military cannot provide.
BFS is run by a flaming liberal and had Michael Moore as a supporter.
A soldier's charity run out of corporate funding because the economy is in the toilet.
The story made Town Called Dobson...
So please, get to StormBear's page and Recommend away. And if you're not planning on putting in a diary entry today, wait until this page drops off the radar and repeat the request!
Many thanks. Let's get the word out.